295, vol.iii, pp.

71, 183, 184, and elsewhere.

For a brief summary with citations, see Eiken, Geschichte, etc., pp.

622, 623.
Nor did medieval thinkers rest with this conception.

In accordance with the dominant view that physical truth must be sought by theological reasoning, the doctrine was evolved that not only the site of the cross on Calvary marked the geographical centre of the world, but that on this very spot had stood the tree which bore the forbidden fruit in Eden.
Thus was geography made to reconcile all parts of the great theologic plan.